On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Matthias Scheler wrote:

>     "-a" does *not* define the target port, it
>     defines the architecture which is e.g. "m68k" for "amiga". You
>     don't need that option most of the time (or always?).

"-a" is typically only needed for multi-arch (typically dual-endian) ports,
e.g., evbarm, evbmips, and a couple others.  These ports still have a sane
default even without "-a".

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